Chief Data Intelligence Officer

Data with a conscience.

Eighteen years in data and financial services, the last decade inside banks and credit unions. Writing about the part nobody scopes: the human one.

Maria Laverghetta
Financial democracyData & AI leadershipCooperative bankingPractitioner-led reformCommunity banks under $10B
Financial democracyData & AI leadershipCooperative bankingPractitioner-led reformCommunity banks under $10B
Financial democracyData & AI leadershipCooperative bankingPractitioner-led reformCommunity banks under $10B
Financial democracyData & AI leadershipCooperative bankingPractitioner-led reformCommunity banks under $10B
About

I build the capability, then I tell the truth about it.

Most institutions chase the shiny AI object and miss the real opportunity sitting in the unglamorous middle layer.

I have led data transformations at organizations with fifteen thousand people and at companies with fifty. The technology is never the hard part. The hard part is trust: getting lending to believe the same number marketing uses, convincing leadership that being data-driven sometimes means being wrong out loud.

I write for the people who actually run these institutions. Not the vendors selling the deck, not the consultants who have never sat with a loan officer who does not trust the model. The operators. The ones who can build the better way, if they stop calling their own expertise “adjacent.”

01Data & AI leadership in financial services
02Financial democracy & credit union mission drift
03Practitioner-led reform for banks under $10B

“The credit unions that survive won’t be the ones with the fanciest algorithms. They’ll be the ones who use AI to be more human, not less.”

Maria Laverghetta
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